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Source text - French Présentation du système défensif de Vauban :
Devant vous et sur votre droite, le Front Nord-Est. Il représente le seul exemple en France, parfaitement conservé du second système défensif VAUBAN. Nous contournons actuellement les bastions 20 et 21 aménagés par VAUBAN pour protéger la Tour des Bourgeois. La demi-lune 26 est un ouvrage destiné à protéger la Porte de Brisach.
Les Tours bastionnées ont été développées à Belfort dans le cadre de son second système de fortification afin de protéger particulièrement les angles de la fortification menacés par les hauteurs voisines.
Avec son ouvrage avancé, la contre garde 28, la Tour bastionnée 27, participe à la défense lointaine et rapprochée du front nord. La tour bastionnée 27 est l’une des trois tours avec les Tours 41 et 46 à l’ouest et au sud de l’enceinte fortifiée par VAUBAN. De cet endroit, le visiteur a une vue admirable sur le front nord des fortifications qui, parfaitement conservé, permet de comprendre l’art de VAUBAN dont le système de fortification est adapté à la configuration du terrain, ici, l’utilisation du relief entre la tour des Bourgeois, invisible, derrière les bastions qui la protègent et la Tour 27.
Translation - English Description of Vauban's defensive system:
In front of you and to your right is the NE facade. It is the only example in France of a perfectly preserved second defensive system by VAUBAN. We are now skirting round bastions 20 and 21, built by VAUBAN to protect the Tour des Bourgeois. Half-circle 26 is a structure that was designed to protect the Porte de Brisach.
The bastion towers were developed at Belfort as part of its second defensive system, specifically in order to protect the corners of the fortifications under threat from the nearby hills.
With its outwork, namely counterguard 28, bastion tower 27 forms part of both the distant and close-quarter defences of the North facade. Bastion tower 27 is one of 3 towers built by VAUBAN, along with tower 41 and tower 46, to the west and south of the fortified wall respectively. From this spot, the visitor has an impressive view over the North facade of the perfectly preserved fortifications, which allow one to understand VAUBAN'S skill, and how his defensive system is adapted to the layout of the land. Here, it is the use of relief between the Tour des Bourgeois, which is invisible behind the bastions protecting both it and Tower 27.
French to English: Conference on Ageing
Source text - French Le monde entier prend de l’âge, tous ses habitants vivent et vivront plus vieux, y compris ceux des pays émergeants.
En Europe, et dans bon nombre des pays de l’Union, "le marché de la dépendance" devient solvable grâce aux obligations financières et sociales des collectivités et grâce aussi, aux revenus plus importants des personnes âgées.
L’objet du colloque est double :
- montrer aux financeurs "sociaux" que la domotique appliquée et les Techniques d’Information et de Communication (TIC) peuvent permettre une meilleure prise en charge des personnes âgées dépendantes, sans surcoût dissuasif.
- sensibiliser les entreprises aux ouvertures économiques induites par la perte d’autonomie physique liée à l’âge, mais aussi, à la perte d’autonomie mentale, qui est un créneau plus innovant.
Site Internet du colloque
www.e-elderlycare.eu
Translation - English The whole world is aging: everyone is living longer and will continue to live longer, and this also applies to developing countries.
In Europe generally, and particularly in a large number of EU countries, the “elderly care market” is currently solvent, thanks to the financial and social obligations of each country, and thanks also to the fact that old people now enjoy higher incomes.
The aims of this conference are twofold:
- to show those responsible for financing “social welfare” policies that using home-automation devices and Information and Communications Technology can improve the care offered to old, dependent people without incurring prohibitive, additional expense.
- to make companies aware of the potential business opportunities created by the loss of physical independence among old people, and also by their loss of mental independence, the latter being a new and innovative market sector.
Conference internet site: www.e-elderlycare.eu
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Bachelor's degree - University of Durham
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Years of experience: 23. Registered at ProZ.com: Jul 2002.
Classics degree (Greek, Latin) from the University of Durham.
Considerable IT experience (software and hardware); SAP localisation; military/aviation specification experience.
I have also worked as a Technical Writer for IBM, Royal Mail, Telefónica (SAINCO) and others;
I have extensive experience of revising and editing a wide range of translations.
- inhouse SAP / uPerform translation project (EN-FR) for Glaxo, Paris.
- translation of hundreds of medical claims/reports for Medicare (ES-EN).
- part of SAP localisation team (EN-FR) for Nestlé in Switzerland: SAP glossary, SAP modules, help screens, dialogue boxes etc.
- translated a series of manuals (PCB specs., User Guides, Messages and Codes etc.) for a Navy "wargames" simulator.
- translated SAP training material (ES-EN) for Kraft foods.
- inhouse translator at SGN (Aréva), Bagnols sur Cèze:
translated (nuclear) Functional/Organic Analyses, Procurement Specifications, software program variables etc. into English.
- translated the "Cité du Train" (Mulhouse Railway Museum) website into English.
- translated the audio commentary for "Le Petit Train de Belfort".
- translated a corporate weblog for a Spanish multinational.
- translated the technical spec. for a software network adapter.
- audio transcription (FR-EN) for Reuters.
- translated a robotics user manual.
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